Magic Mushrooms
mushroomsMontreal
(Mar.22.07)
Is it humanly possible to get bored of Cookie Dough Dynamo ice cream? It gets us through breakups, troubling tax audits, horror movies and is, of course, our favoured form of calcium. Perish the thought that another flavour could steal our heart. But it has. An unlikely contender is challenging the pint in our freezer. 
It’s a new porcini mushroom ice cream made in Montreal.
Seriously. Lower your eyebrows and let us explain. Handmade at the new Mycoboutique, the porcini ice cream is exceptionally savoury ($6 for 250mL), creamy and delicious. We like it so much we often have a hard time giving it up for a scoop of their truffle ice cream ($12 for 250mL), and porcini and maple flavour ($6 for 250mL). Plus, it’s a quirky dessert option to serve between courses at all-night dinner parties (we know you have them too).
And we have to admit, besides buying the ice cream and other mushroom-based food options (the store only retails in 'shrooms), we like going to the store in anticipation of seeing the city’s top chefs milling about, buying Mycoboutique’s wild and dried mushrooms from Quebec, Oregon, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and British Columbia. Rumours are spreading that Mycoboutique stocks the elusive matsutake mushroom, a rare breed in Asia.
And to think we thought they were just a fungus.
Mycoboutique
www.mycoboutique.ca
820 Rachel E. (south side, near St. Hubert)
514-223-6977